youtube Get rid of ridiculous faces: DeArrow extension crowdsources non-hideous YouTube thumbnails Mark Frauenfelder
clickbait An exposé of viral content farms and the tricks they use to get you to click Rusty Blazenhoff
clickbait This company analyzed 100 million headlines to find out which ones were the most effective Mark Frauenfelder
crime Scammers have been conning social media personalities and taking over their accounts Ruben Bolling
$50m centrist news site shuts after one year of wealthy owners insisting that's what everyone wants Rob Beschizza
fox "He cheated on his wife and then left her with twins" — Dan Crenshaw blasts Fox's Watters' personal life Mark Frauenfelder
writing "Lives found ended": Washington Post unveils new euphemism to avoid naming the dead or the ender Rob Beschizza
mistakes Twitter running shady undisclosed ads that look an awful lot like those new unheadlined link previews Rob Beschizza
politics Fox News refuses to apologize for fabricated story about dead Marine whose sole source was a far-right Florida congressman (Update: they finally puked one up) Rob Beschizza
twitter Despite negative feedback from advertisers, Musk confirms plan to further reduce Twitter/X's utility Jason Weisberger
art Artist Nemo Gould's "Click Bait" is the "painful reminder of our folly" we all need Gareth Branwyn
literature "Gaslighting" isn't Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year, darling, you're just confused Rob Beschizza